The Canary

Poem

Up in your cage of gold,
Singing us all awake,
What, if it might be told,
What is the wish you'd make?

Is it, "I'd like to be
Out in the open air,
Out of this cage, and free,
Free to go anywhere?"

The Canary

Poem

Up in your cage of gold,
Singing us all awake,
What, if it might be told,
What is the wish you'd make?

Is it, "I'd like to be
Out in the open air,
Out of this cage, and free,
Free to go anywhere?"

Notes

Written by Frank Dempster Sherman.

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Read by Lisa Yannucci.

Thanks and Acknowledgements

This poem can be found in "The Child's Companion" (1844) with the author given as S.W.P.

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